The little girl stood on the sidewalk holding tightly to her
mother's hand. Her mother was talking to a group of people standing on the
sidewalk holding large white posters. Her mother wasn't very happy and little
Emily wondered what was going on. Why were the people standing on the sidewalk?
Why was her mother angry at them? Emily tried to sound out the words on the
posters. The first word she did not understand but the other two words made her
eyes grow wide with wonder:" Kills Children". She wanted to ask her mother what
the first word, A-b-o-r-t-i-o-n, meant but she dare not interrupt. What could be
so horrible as to kill children and why was her mother defending something that
kills children? The questions flooded the little girl's innocent mind.

Little Emily did not understand the adult conversation going
on above her but she caught bits and pieces of it. Her mother was saying things
like "It's my choice" and "It's a free country!" Emily's little ears picked out
the word `fetus' several times. That was a word she knew. She remembered the
time a lady came to her school with small, rubbery models of babies at different
stages growing in their mommies' tummy. The lady had let Emily hold the lifelike
babies, but when Emily told her mom about it, she got mad. Her mom told her it
was not right to call it a baby and the lady was wrong for doing so. She told
Emily that the right word was `fetus'. Emily was bewildered at her mother's
exasperation but she complied nevertheless.

Now, standing on the sidewalk in the cold wind with her
mother's defiant voice above, Emily wondered what the rubbery models had to do
with all of this. Emily, in her innocence, was too young to grasp the
significance of the conversation. She was too young to know that 4,000 babies
are torn from their mother's tummy each day. She was unaware that
a-b-o-r-t-i-o-n spells MURDER. She knew nothing of the lies and evils of the
abortion industry that had consumed America since the legalization of abortion,
and that her mother was only one of the many victims of these lies. Emily's
mother, too, was unaware of this. When she was still young, Emily's mother had
been taught the code words of the abortion industry. Raised in an
abortion-minded society, she had become seeped in the untruths of choice,
women's rights, and tolerance of evil. Like so many other Americans, the lies
held Emily's mother in darkness, closing her mind to the light of truth.

To the pro-life warrior who accepts the challenge of standing
up for life even in the face of opposition, it seems a hopeless task. It seems
that for every one step forward, we take two steps back and we never seem to
make any progress. It seems as though the hearts and minds of men and women like
Emily's mother are immovable mountains that will never budge. But it is at times
like these that we must remember that faith moves the immovable. We must
remember that the greatest ally one can have is truth; and truth is what we've
got. Who else is so fortunate as to be assured of ultimate victory, aside from
those who stand in defense of truth?

It's easy to get discouraged but we must never give up. The
babies who will die today have never died before. Every day of legalized
abortion is a new cause for sorrow. We still have a chance to make a difference
and reach out to the babies and mothers who are still in danger. And while, for
the time being, Emily's mother might not change her views, an indelible
impression had been left in the memory of young Emily of a sign that reads:
"Abortion Kills Children". Someday she may see the truth in the testimony and
take her place in the pro-life movement. Be that as it may, we must be careful
not to measure truth by our amount of success. Even if we never convince another
person of the truth we treasure, even if we never pass another piece of pro-life
legislation, even if all our attempts fail... the truth will not change. One can
only pray for the strength to be the last one standing for life if it would ever
come to that. As Pope Liberius said in 355 AD "My standing alone doesn't make
the truth a whit weaker.

" No matter what new code words the abortionists and feminists
come up with we will fight to expose them to the truth, for we are fighting for
life. The truth will set us free and America will, once again, be a free
country. We will be the voice of those who never got a chance to speak. Notice
that the last letters of the word "American" spell "I CAN". WE CAN and will
speak the truth that will uncover the evil of abortion!